It’s weird that I can store state using something like

random.RandomPet("SamplePetz", {..})

But can’t set my own config from runtime.

What are you trying to do?

Say I want to store a value set from env variables. Like, who submitted a PR.

Yes - this is a scenario that's come up a few times. There's no first-class support for it today. But it's possible to accomplish with a simple dynamic provider. There are theoretically three places we could store this long-term: 1. As a resource in the resource state 2. As metadata in the deployment 3. As config Config is the least likely solution, as it is not versioned with the state directly - it is provided separately at deployment time. Resource state is simple and can be done with a dynamic provider today in a few lines of code. But it would be nice to have something built in which just stores some state (like

new pulumi.Variable()

?). A really first-class version of this might be possible by allowing user code to set values for custom metadata. We already store a bit of metadata in the state file, but it would be possible to expose read existing metadata and write new custom metadata. We'd have to be a little careful here, as the CRUD model for this is not as well-defined as the resource model CRUD is.

@white-balloon-205 I really appreciate the input and taking a look, thank you so much for the help here!